Announcements

On Thursday, October 13, the ACC Nevada chapter will team up with Jackson Lewis to offer a Labor & Employment Law Symposium.
It will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at The Stirling Club, 2827 Paradise Road in Las Vegas.
This event, designed for in-house corporate counsel and human resources professionals, offers CLE credits, breakfast and lunch...

On Thursday and Friday, November 17 and 18, Georgetown University School of Law offers Advanced E-Discovery Institute - Making the Case: Developing Legally Defensible E-Discovery Best Practices.
The Institute is located at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, 1250 South Hayes Street in Arlington, Virginia. It begins at 8:15 a.m. on day one and ends at 5:30...

On Friday, October 14, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics will host a regional Compliance and Ethics Conference. This year's event will begin at 8:30 a.m. and end at 4:30 p.m. at the Omni Hotel at the CNN Center, 100 CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Attendees will learn about current regulatory requirements, government enforcement...

On Wednesday, October 19, ALI-ABA will present California's Revised Rules of Professional Conduct: Traps for the Unwary, to help practitioners become familiar with revisions to the rules.
The live webcast will run from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. EDT.
A special commission in California has reexamined that state's Rules of Professional Conduct and proposed...

Save the dates - Wednesday, October 26 through Sunday October 30 -for the Voice of the Defense Bar's blockbuster annual meeting. This years' meeting is at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, NW in Washington, DC.
The meeting begins on Wednesday with a board meeting of DRI directors at 8:00 a.m. and the day ends at 6:00 p.m.
Thursday...

On Tuesday, September 27, The Bar Association of San Francisco will offer an evening seminar, H-1B Visas for Specialty Occupations, to coverthe basic requirements of H1-B petitions and the preparation of an H-1B petition from start to finish.
It will run from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street in San Francisco....

NAMWOLF will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year at the 2011 Annual Meeting and Law Firm Expo at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
It will run from Sunday to Wednesday, September 18 to 21.
On Monday morning, the welcome address features Vernice "Flygirl" Armour, America's first African-American combat pilot. She will be followed byJulie Gibbens of...

Save the dates Tuesday, October 11 through Saturday, October 15, for the American Bar Association's International Section Fall Meeting in Dublin, Ireland. The event is being held at the new Dublin Convention Centre at Spencer Dock in Dublin, Ireland. Hotel accommodations for attendees are located at the Shelbourne Dublin at 27 St. Stephens Green in Dublin...

Lawyers for Civil Justice (LCJ) took action this fall to improve the e-discovery rules to which corporate defendants are held accountable. In an official comment to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, LCJ argued that problems with discovery and electronic discovery have become so pervasive in recent years that rule makers must immediately...

On Thursday, September 15, the Chicago Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel will host the annual In-House Celebration Dinner. The dinner will be located at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, 301 East North Water Street in Chicago. The dinner and awards presentation begins at 5:15 and ends at 8:30 p.m.
The chapter's celebration dinner...

Hot Topics in Copyright Law is the title of an upcoming luncheon seminar sponsored by the Bar Association of San Francisco on Wednesday, September 28.
It will run from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street in San Francisco.
The two cases being discussed, Golan v. Holder and Vernor v. Autodesk, have far-reaching...

The American Conference Institute has planned a forum this fall titled Wage Hour Claims and Class Actions on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 20 and 21. It will be held at the Sheraton Fisherman's Whart in San Francisco.
Highlights of the forum include a view from the plaintiffs' bar: adjusting litigation strategies in light of new and innovative wage...

On Friday, September 9, the Colorado Bar Association has scheduled Advertising Law in 2011.
It will run from 9:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at the CLECI Large Classroom, 1900 Grant Street in Denver.
Legal professionals from the Federal Trade Commission and the Colorado Attorney General's Office, national business experts, and nationally known private...

The Cleantech Committee of the ACC San Francisco Bay Area has scheduled a lunchtime meeting, Innovative Smart Grid Technologies and the Legal Issues They Face, on Thursday, September 9.
The meeting is being sponsored by Morrison Foerster and will be held at their Offices, 755 Page Mill Road in Palo Alto. Lunch begins at 11:30 and the meeting runs from...

On Thursday and Friday, October 13 and 14, the State Bar of Texas will offer an Advanced Business Law Course in Dallas.
It will run from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday and from 9:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on Friday at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel.
Topics to be covered include nexus and state tax due diligence in M&A transactions and multistate...

The University Of Texas School Of Law has scheduled Essential Employment Law - A Practical Course in The Basics, on three dates in three locations.
On Thursday, September 15, it will be presented at The Four Seasons Hotel in Austin, on Thursday, September 22, it has been scheduled at the Hyatt Regency Houston, and on Wednesday, October 12, it will move...

The Opening Assembly of the American Bar Association Annual Meeting was a celebration of unity between Canada and the United States, as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer stirred the crowd at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music with calls for civility, better education and respect for the Rule of Law.
"Children of a common mother, when we...

On Wednesday to Friday, September 14 to 16, Marcus Evans Conferences will explore the FCPA and Anti-Corruption Compliance.
The pre-conference workshops on Wednesday begin at 1:30 p.m., and the program ends on Friday morning at the Hilton San Francisco, located in the Financial District, 750 Kearny Street.
Attendees will learn how to leverage...

On Thursday, October 6, Jones Day will present Supreme Court Issues: A Review of Key Cases as the Court Kicks Off the New Term. The event will be held at the offices of Jones Day, 500 Grant Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It begins at 8:00 and ends at 10:00 a.m.
The presenters, Gregory A. Castanis, Brian J. Murray and Leon F. "Lee" DeJulius Jr.,...

West LegalEdcenter is offering Managing Litigation 2011: Litigation Readiness and Project Management for the In-House Counsel on Thursday, September 15, at the Embassy Suites Chicago Downtown Lakefront, 511 N. Columbus Drive in Chicago.
This live course starts at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 5:30 p.m.
As internal pressures mount on legal departments to...

The State Bar of Texas will offer the Business Torts Institute 2011 this fall, on October 13 and 14 in Houston.
It will run from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Thursday and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday at the Westin Houston Memorial City, 945 Gessner Road.
Hot Topics that will be discussed include ten emerging issues in business torts every...

On Wednesday, September 7, the Practising Law Institute hosts the ninth annual Directors Institute on Corporate Governance. The seminar will be groupcast to the University of Chicago Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive in Chicago. It begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m.
At this renowned institute, leading corporate governance experts -...

The Executive Counsel Institute has planned a two-day colloquium in Houston titled E-Discovery for the Corporate Market on Thursday and Friday, September 22 and 23.
It will run from 9:00 a.m. until 5:15 p.m. on Thursday and from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Friday at the Hyatt Regency Houston, 1200 Louisiana Street in Houston.
This is a highly...

American Bar Association President William T. (Bill) Robinson III submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Labor on behalf of the ABA, urging the department to reconsider a proposed rule on the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. The department's proposed rule would substantially narrow the longstanding “advice...

The legal basics of renewable energy projects, which are being planned and built in many regions in California even though much of the traditional real estate market has stalled, will be covered in a luncheon seminar sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
The program will run from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Bar Association, 1055 West 7th...